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Archiv "Deutsches Gedächtnis"

Also known as ‘German Memory’ Archive. Research Data Centre of the Institute for History and Biography · Archiv "Deutsches Gedächtnis". Forschungsdatenzentrum des Instituts für Geschichte und Biographie

The ‘Deutsches Gedächtnis’ archive is the research data centre of the Institute for History and Biography at the FernUniversität in Hagen. It archives all interviews conducted since the early 1980s as part of contemporary history research and documentation projects at the Institute for History and Biography. In addition, collections of interviews from third-party research are incorporated. The archive is constantly growing through the Institute’s own projects, the incorporation of older collections from third parties, and support for ongoing external projects. The interviews are life-history, narrative interviews in the style of oral history. They were conducted as part of contemporary hist…

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Websitehttps://deutsches-gedaechtnis.fernuni-hagen.de/de
Last updated2026-09-11

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